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    <namePart>Mahajan, Gurpreet.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
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    <extent>1 online resource (xii, 155 p.).</extent>
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  <abstract>Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each of the major forms of inquiry - hermeneutic understanding, narrative, reason-action, and causal explanation - to examine how each method changes our perceptions of social reality. This edition includes a new Preface that discusses the evolution in social sciences over the last twenty years.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Gurpreet Mahajan.</note>
  <note>Previous ed.: 1997.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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